Word: nasality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that the majority of the choices for the first installment of Cavalcade last week turned out to be foreign bothered Moore not at all. So, between the nasal cartoon witticisms of Bert and Harry Piel and the prizewinning Calo Cat & Dog Food commercial (TIME, Oct. 6), Californians were treated to a half-hour of sales pitches for products they may never get a chance to buy. A sampling...
...really a remarkable group of puppets created by ex-Actor George Nellé, 34. and Writer-Director Don Kane, 30. As Hostess Brigid and her small guests sit by and offer advice, creatures named Tugnacious R. Jones and Myrtle Flower ("She's an Eloise type") join an old, nasal-voiced wizard in such projects as constructing a popcorn machine that will not stop popping, and making a sewing machine that turns out marbles...
...found that the girls' mother was a nurse in a small hospital 100 miles away. And this hospital had had an epidemic of resistant staph just before the girls got their abscesses. Tricky test-tube work showed that the mother was carrying the same resistant staph in her nasal passages. She was a "healthy carrier." More work showed that 43 of 59 patients and staff members also carried staph, mostly in mild form. The mother is now getting a combination of antibiotics in hopes of making her a healthy noncarrier...
Many an unprepared radio listener must have wondered one night this week if he had inadvertently tuned in the private wave length of the vice squad. "I have accounts with manufacturers." a girl was saying in a nasal, defensive tone. "The manufacturer himself calls me directly. I get in contact with two or three of my girl friends, and we discuss the terms. Usually they want a guarantee of $100-more if we give more considerations...
Every Monday evening at 10 p.m. on NBC, a honk that sounds as if it came from a goose with a bad head cold reverberates through the living rooms of America, and America listens-and watches. The Arthur Murray Party and its nasal, admittedly amateurish M.C., Kathryn Murray, have somehow waltzed into one of the top-rated spots on nighttime TV. Fortnight ago, after CBS had spent weeks advertising The Case of Dr. Mudd on Desilu Playhouse, CBS's Trendex was 18.7, the Party's a cozy...